Social media platform Reddit is back online after it identified and implemented a fix for a “major outage” that made browsing impossible for desktop and mobile users for almost six hours. The platform first noted it was offline at 7:18 pm UTC on March 14, according to Reddit Status, and said it was working to identify the issue. Screenshot of the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit during the outage. Source: Reddit About 30 minutes later, at 7:56 pm UTC, it said it had identified an internal systems issue and was working to determine…
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Kevin O’Leary and Hasan Debate FTX, Crypto, and Investments | The Daily Show
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Signature Bank Closure Has Nothing to Do With Crypto, Says Regulator – Finance Bitcoin News
The decision to close down Signature Bank had “nothing to do with crypto,” said the New York State Department of Financial Services, the regulator that took possession of the troubled bank on Sunday. The financial watchdog insisted that its decision to put Signature Bank in receivership “was based on the current status of the bank and its ability to do business in a safe and sound manner.” ‘Nothing to Do With Crypto’ After the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) took possession of Signature Bank on Sunday, there…
Blockchain Firm RockX Unveils Institutional Liquid Staking Platform
The company is initially targeting exchanges and wealth management platforms, with a view to attracting large funds and banking institutions further down the line, founder and CEO Chen Zhuling told CoinDesk in an interview. Crypto trading firm Amber Group, a RockX investor, will be one of Bedrock’s first clients. Source
Circle USDC Rebounds From De-Pegging, but Stablecoin Observers See an Uncertain Future
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Bitcoin BTC Price Gains Early, Fades Late to Trade Below $25K
James Lavish, managing partner at Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, said that bitcoin’s pullback late Tuesday indicated that the cryptocurrency “got ahead of itself with short covering after pushing through key $25,000 resistance for traders.” In an email to CryptoX, he added: “That, plus the CPI numbers suggest the hikes are not quite over yet, even if the 50-basis point is essentially off the table now.” Source 25kBitcoinBTCEarlyFadesGainsLatePriceTrade CryptoX Portal
EU Parliament’s Smart Contract Plans Limit Standard-Setting Promise, EU Commissioner Says
“We need to harmonize basic requirements for these smart contracts” to ensure interoperability, legal certainty and large scale deployment, said Breton, the commission’s lead official responsible for internal market laws, including for the digital sector. “When we made this proposal we intended to mandate standardization organizations to develop these.” Source
WTF Happened to BITCOIN???
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Billionaire ‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach Expects Fed to Raise Rates Next Week — ‘That Would Be the Last Increase’ – Economics Bitcoin News
Billionaire Jeffrey Gundlach, aka the “Bond King,” expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at its March meeting next week, which “would be the last increase,” he said. In addition, Gundlach cautioned: “The inflationary policy is back in play with the Federal Reserve.” Doubleline CEO Jeffrey Gundlach on Fed Rate Hikes Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive and chief investment officer of investment management firm Doubleline, shared his Fed rate hike expectations in an interview with CNBC Monday. Gundlach is nicknamed “the Bond King” after he appeared on the cover of…
Staked ETH Withdrawals Being Processed on Ethereum Goerli Testnet Ahead of Shanghai Fork
There was a 29% validator participation rate at the time that the epoch triggered, which is particularly low for Ethereum. On a YouTube livestream, Ben Edgington, a product lead at Teku, an Ethereum client, acknowledged the low participation rate was likely due to validator nodes not having upgraded on time for the Goerli fork. Source